9th. Almost to friday. Thankfully, but you know lets get started. They could have just named it oakland Bay Area International airport. You know . I feel like that might have been yeah. More clearer than this current change. Travelers landing in oakland as travel bosses on two sides of the bay prepare for battle over changing the name of oaklands airport. The vote today could decide whether travel titans square off in court. Our superintendent was the only person testifying that could not just flat out say we have an antisemitism problem. She couldnt do it and that was just that was a punch to the gut. Called to testify. The head of berkeleys schools grilled on a National Stage over claims of antisemitism. We hear from bay area parents concerned about their childrens safety. It felt like the perfect opportunity to build a really cool product for an app that we all love. X marks the spot for Young Developers taking an open door to make the platform formerly known as twitter a better experience for all of us. Their ideas ahead. The whole thing is a pure adrenaline rush. And fighting flames is a leap of faith. A team of firefighters taking you into a heros journey in fire country. Would you jump from a plane . Thats the question of this morning. Good morning, everybody. Im reed cowan. G, would you. Jumping from planes to save lives to fight fires. Im gianna franco. And thes on is no. Unless my life depended on it i guess. Wow. Lot of stories this morning and our 3 00 hour about people doing very daring things. Yeah. Very daring and we dare to talk about the weather because i felt the change yesterday. Did you . I did too but a but over along the coast it tends to get a little cooler. Kind of nice for us. Look at the beautiful view as we wake up on this friday jr. Thursday eve. All the names for the weekend almost being here. Jessica. Absolutely. And yeah, i felt the change too and only going to get even more pronounced as we head into this afternoon. Our daytime highs today are actually really impressive. Some of the hottest weather weve seen so far this year. So lets dive straight into our weather headlines waking up to the blue skies above all of us here in the bay area. Were gearing up for a moderate heat risk in our inland areas into this afternoon. Lasting into our forecast tomorrow as well. Temperatures are starting to climbed to and were going to see a similar trend into this weekends forecast. Luckily by this weekend we kind of start to see a split in each microclimate. The inland areas still stay hot along the coast we cool off a little bit quicker so as we head into this weekend, theres a lot of big changes in the forecast for us but were here to get you prepared for that and heres the heat risk in full force. If you see orange in the local community you are under a moderate heat risk today. And i want to show you what that looks like for us as we head out the door today, and get ready for the day and last into this afternoon, like i said you are going notice the blue skies above us. Clear conditions and windy still up in the north bay. A lot lighter wind in the south bay but can you ignore the temperature around me . Two days ago in the 60s in San Francisco and now were talking about low 80s. A similar trend along 101 spooredwood city and then 70s in the forecast for us near halfmoon bay. Were going to warm up close to the 90s this afternoon near antioch and livermore and yes, it is hot down into the Santa Clara Valley too. 86 this afternoon near san jose. Were going to continue to see a similar set up in the weekend but ill show you that coming up in just a bit. Thank you. Lets talk about that drive to work and school this morning. Because we are already tracking a bit of a backup here at the bay bridge. Metering lights are on. And looks like you are seeing delays from just about that overpass there. So not too bad just yet. But if you are commuting into the city from some of the east bay routes like 680 or highway 4, westbound out of pittsburg and bay point all of the areas are getting a little bit busy this morning. So just keep that in mind. And of course our busiest spots continue along 580 this morning couple of things to look out for. The ride heading into the altamont pass. Once you get to north flynn everything is moving along well. Until the area near the Castro Valley i dont have. Traffic is slow because of a crash blocking a lane. Travel times about 41 minutes, 205 over to 680. But Everything Else is Holding Steady with some pretty okay speeds. Reed . All right, thank you so much. Directors for the port of oakland will hold a final vote today about renaming Oakland International. The San Francisco bay Oakland International airport. Theyre getting all vowels there. Looking live at Oakland Airport this morning, we know if the airport gets that new name, San FranciscoCity Attorney they will sue for trademark infringement. Airport bosses in the east bay want the change. So guess what . Theyre basing their argument on what passengers say so we asked the passengers landing themselves. They could have then just named it oakland Bay Area International airport you know. I feel like that might have been yeah, more clear than this current change. I also dont know if people are making decisions about where to travel to based off of the name of the airport. So like at the point of which you are looking into the name of the airport, you are probably already decided that you are going to oakland. So im not sure thats the most like important feature of like the Decision Making for where you are going to travel to. So you are listening to mara and ben there visiting from chicago. By the way welcome to the bay area. We hope you treat you well. For now San Franciscos attorney wearing kid gloves and signaling they will collaborate with oakland on a different name. But we dont know what will play out here. But we will have the results of that oakland vote tonight at 5 00. Well, at the nations capitol, the head of berkeleys School District testified in the first ever hearing on antisemitism in k12 schools. The superintendent faced criticism and scrutiny over the handling of alleged incidents in the district. Our john ramos spoke with a parent who traveled to washington, d. C. Where she says her son has felt threatened at school. Now going to the great city of utah, mr. Burgess, you are recognized for five minutes. Reporter only three people testified at the hearing on school antisemitism and berkeley unified superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel was one of them. Since october 7th, the district has had formal complaints alleging antisemitism arising from nine incidents in our jurisdiction. However, antisemitism is not pervasive in the berkeley unified School District. Our superintendent was the only person testifying that could not just flat out say we have an antisemitism problem. She couldnt do it. And that was just that was a punch to the gut. Reporter elaina pearlman has a jewish student at Berkeley High who had to leave the art class when art was that was antiisrael on a poster was being displayed to the students. Dozens of students have been pulled out of berkeley unified School District classrooms when they have complained about antisemitism and thats wrong. My son included, spent a week in the Student Health center and library because there was nowhere to put him. Reporter across the bay area, there have been attempts to hold socalled teachins about gaza. That are usually pretty condemning of israels actions. But some say the angst towards israel is extending to outright hatred of jews and at one walkout in Berkeley High, some students were alleged to have chanted kill the jews, but another parent in the district rejects that as a lie. Liz jackson, who is also jewish and supports the palestinians, says the complaints of antisemitism are coming from a small, vocal group of parents. We completely reject the notion that theres an antisemitic climate here. Yes, of course there are instances of hate, that happens. That happens everywhere and it happens here too. But what these this small handful of parents are complaining about is political discomfort. And political discomfort is completely different than unsafe. Reporter jackson says she is comfortable leaving instruction about the conflict up to the teachers. And says she is confident that students can process information without it turning to hate. The hearings this morning had absolutely nothing to do with the wellbeing or safety of jewish students. It was about a right wing attack on education and a right wing attempt to censor information. Reporter they say the First Casualty in any war is the truth. But where the truth actually lies in gaza is a matter of perspective and isnt something thats likely to come out of a classroom. And another civil rights complaint was filed against busd this one alleging discrimination against palestinian, muslim, and arab students. It also accuses the district of punishing teachers who publicly support palestine. We reached out to the School District for comment. But didnt hear back. Well, President Joe Biden arrives in the bay area today, his administration is pulling back on sending weapons to israel. This while Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu remains resolute about a ground attack in the city of rafah. So this is a clear message by biden to israel that while he remains committed to israels defense, he does not support that rafah ground invasion. Why . Well, more than a million Palestinian Civilians havesheltered there in rafah also according to the israel the major last stronghold of hamas. More than 100 hostages still held this morning. Its unlikely reporters will be able to ask the president about it while hes in the bay. People with deep pockets hosting he and the parade today. In fact one event at the home of a former yahoo ceo in palo alto and another in the valley. This is by the way the second time this year biden will stop in the bay area ahead of the november election. Meanwhile, the man who is the Presumptive Republican nominee for president that will go headtohead with joe biden will be in court today. Listening to testimony by a former adult film actress testifying against him. You are talking about the hush money trial for former president donald trump. Its going on again in manhattan today. Well, despite trumps defense team calling for and not getting a mistrial, daniels testimony is a buildup to hearing from trumps former attorney who says he was a part of getting daniels paid to keep quiet about an alonged affair between trump and daniels. Lets go to another headline about another candidate for president. This is a big one this morning. All over social media in fact. Robert f. Kennedy jr. Had brain worms. Sounds train. But it was confirmed by the campaign. Worse, the times reporting this morning it was a parasitic worm that ate a portion of kennedys brain. Before the parasite died. Now while this was just coming to light, kennedys team wants you to know this was a decade ago and their candidate is now in robust physical and Mental Health despite some early connivety issues. In fact kennedy is harnessing the headline here. Making light of the revelation. Posting online quote i offered to eat five more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate. G . Time right now 10. Taking a leap of faith while fighting wildfires. Still ahead meet the team of firefighters jumping into the flames. And the platform formerly known as twitter taps into the brain power of some bay area students to try to propose to elon musk how to make a better place on social media. Their ideas were heard by light gentle music unraveling lifes mysteries. At stanford medicine, its part of our dna. Our World Class School of medicine and adult and Childrens Health systems Work Together expanding what we know and sharing what we discover to accelerate breakthroughs and inspire the next generation of code breakers. Stanford medicine, advancing knowledge, improving lives. light gentle music did my legs shrink . I can move them. I mean, i knew Alaska Airlines premium class had extra legroom but this. This feels different. Okay. Crazy idea. On the count of 3. Im going to try and cross my. Ohhhhhhhhhhh boyy thats nice. Woooooo well, its a debate about data. Has x really rebounded since elon musks takeover of social media in 2022 . Well, thats what musk posted just last week saying the platform reached another alltime high in usage. Last fall x reported the average user spends more than 32 minutes on their platform each day. And that the company is seeing over half a billion users every month. That averages out to be about 1. 5 million new signups a day. However, multiple independent reports cite data showing that since musks takeover, users for x have actually dropped. Still the platform is a place for millions to get news and offer their opinions. Shawn chitnis is joining us now with the story of x actually tapping into the brain power of some of our young bay area minds to maybe think about making x better. Reporter very young and really care about issues like this. And the time is also important. The need couldnt be any greater right now. Given that people are talking about some of the most controversial and divisive topics that are out there. When x challenged developers last month if they could create a cool feature or app that improves the experience for user, the winning team came up with the way to promote more honesty and encourage different perspectives. Plus they got to pitch their idea to elon musk. So when we saw this challenge, it felt like the perfect opportunity to build a really cool product for an app that we all love. Reporter four friends all studying Computer Science at Santa Clara University got an Incredible Opportunity well before they start their careers in tech. A challenge to make x, the platform formerly known as twitter, better for the average user. And then they would later learn present the idea to the companys owner, elon musk. It was amazing. It was a great experience. Hes an extremely down to earth nice guy and asked a lot of questions about our product and hes extremely understanding. Spent the time out of his like busy day to come and speak. So i was extremely grateful for that. Reporter they spent 30 hours working nonstop during the competition to come up with a product they called insight x. The idea is to give users more perspective and information. So when someone posts on the platform, you can easily get access to their history of posts and learn how truthful their post is. You also get presented with other posts with different views to give you all angles on a topic. We didnt know how it would play out, but we built a tool that we thought really at its core functionality addressed a need of a user. Reporter for these four active users, it was a chance to work on a platform that they already enjoy and be in the room when elon musk joined them over video call as they explained their idea to him and company leaders. I actually was really surprised. Hes a very humble guy and hes very down to earth. He made it a very pressurefree environment for us. He just came in and hes making jokes and trying to understand our product. Reporter this team of juniors and seniors hope their work is a sign of the change that can come with a new generation of tech workers and leaders to make social media more accurate and more meaningful for everyone. Theyre trying and theyre making lots of positive progress towards towards where they want to be. Reporter so its not clear if x will adopt the idea and add this feature to their platform. Its also important that we note that in recent years, critics of all social Media Companies have questioned the motivation of the tech giants. Suggesting profits come before safety as well as whether they are going far enough in their use of content moderation. So at least for now, we see that the young people are coming up with the ideas that we need and hopefully can have that kind of influence. I mean, theyre smart and obviously from a technical coding standpoint. Very creative. But i feel like they care about getting good information out there and making sure you know and you are well informed before you make decisions. Brings me peace to know they were thinking about that. Number one pay the kid. Number two elon musk frame up your shot. Just like this. You elon musk. All of us, not that concerned about how hes framed up. [ laughter ] why would he be. Great to see the kids get the opportunity. A live look outside on this thursday morning. Why dont we take a look at the Golden Gate Bridge . What a gorgeous view. Every time i see pictures of the bay, reed, or live shots like this, i want this on my wall or something. Its stunning. Jessica, its going to be a Beautiful Day and you know, its warm and calm here in the bay area today. But we hear that its not really the case in other parts of the country. Absolutely. Thats right. Gianna. This is actually the Third Straight day of dangerous and possibly deadly weather moving across the country. More than 51 Million People